Andrew Friedman

Say it slowly. Savor the syllables. Cue Carl Sagan. A third of a billion. That is the amount the Dodgers' owners are spending on their major league payroll this season. One-third of a billion dollars. So far. On the popular scale of measuring the commitment of an ownership group by its willingness to spend, Guggenheim Baseball Management might be the greatest ownership in sports history. Do these guys even have a financial limit? “Yeah, absolutely,” General Manager Farhan Zaidi said Friday. And what might that limit be? “We don't have set numbers,” Zaidi said. “Nobody has ever mentioned a number to us.” We should have seen this coming...

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Central Division
White Sox: Jeff Samardzija survives the trade deadline and Sox stand pat with a sub-.500 team.
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